SDG 4
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SDG 4 is: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all." This is an SDG badge.
Cub requirements
This was part of the 2019 National Cub Challenge.
Complete TWO of the following:
- Start or participate in a community book drive and donate the books collected to a local school/library.
- Create ‘busy bags’ or ‘activity packs’ for an Early Childhood Development Centre in your community.
- Visit Early Childhood Development Centres in your community and play educational games or read to the children.
- Read in your home language a short story to your Pack.
Additional resources:
Scout requirements
Do any TWO of the following:
- Participate in collecting used books, and then donate them to a school in need.
- With your Patrol, make a video about the importance of SDGs; share the video with a Cub Pack. Share your video/presentation (if digital) with the National Office.
- Help a group of three Cubs to learn to read better for at least six weeks.
- Start a “story reading group” for pre-school children. Read to them for at least 15 minutes every week for six weeks.
- Participate in collecting educational toys to donate to a pre-school in a poor area.
- With your Patrol visit a pre-school at least six times for an hour to play memory and sense training games with small groups of children.
- Help a child who is struggling in school with their homework for one term.
Rover requirements
- Assist with an adult/youth learning programme for three months or more (financial literacy, reading and writing, youth tutor, etc.) OR earn the Project Award. (Note: this Award can only be recognised for one SDG).
- With your Crew develop a short video/presentation of how you completed this goal and present it to a Scout Troop or another Scouting body. Share the video and presentation (if digital) with the National Office.
Adult requirements
Complete TWO of the following:
- Identify a group of underprivileged children and spend 30 minutes to an hour per week helping out with homework or basic education for a school term. Document your time and interventions.
- With the Pack, Troop or Crew establish a collection of books at the Group meeting place which are age appropriate and educational. Use the resources you have gathered to run a small youth or adult education group for a term.
- Complete a recognised training course that will give you the knowledge to help school children to learn a basic reading or writing skill.
- Find an Adult Basic Education Training (ABET) programme near you. Introduce another adult to the course, and attend for 6 months, so that you can:
- Speak another language at a basic level (English if it is not your home language, or an indigenous language)
- Read in your home language
- Write in your home language
- Learn to how to use the South African Sign Language (SASL) to at least level 1A.
- Start an adult basic education programme with two or three other adults. Run it for six months, for at least 3 other adults, to teach a basic life skill, it could be teaching someone to drive, to read or write, prepare and work to a household budget, etc.
- Tutor a university or Technikon student from a disadvantaged background for a semester.
- For one semester, coach a person who is in need for a semester in at least one subject – maths, science, geography etc.
- Train a basic vocation skill which will give someone and advantage when trying to enrol for a formal course to get a qualification, e.g., bricklaying, basic plumbing, basic electrical work. The Scout interest badges are a guide to what should be achieved.
- Take on an intern in your workplace for a period of 6 months and use the opportunity to train them in non-formal skills they will need for employment in your sector.
- Plan, fund, organise and carry out at least two educational outings for scholars at a disadvantaged school to provide them with an educational opportunity that they would otherwise not have – e.g. visit a dairy, fire station, factory, wastewater treatment works etc.